If you’ve felt this way, I encourage you to consider that communication is a skill you can learn. Writing, speaking, presenting, training, etc., are all variations of the basic skill of communication. If you can learn how to articulate your ideas, you will likely find more success in your career. If you’re willing to teach
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Worth Reading – Purposeful Work Boosts Engagement, but Few Experience It
I would suggest that another partial explanation is that many jobs and businesses don’t involve work that feels purposeful because the work has no purpose. Too many jobs exist solely to make more money for CEOs and investors. They don’t sell anything that helps society. Employees don’t benefit directly from business improvements, and those same
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Worth Reading – AI agents are only as good as the data they’re given, and that’s a big issue for businesses
I’ve been rethinking how to approach information governance recently, and the article below relates to my new approach:
There is, however, a disconnect in business — although businesses report using data more, technical leaders have reservations, with nearly two-thirds (63%) agreeing their companies struggle to drive business priorities with data. Data and analytics leaders estimate
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Worth Reading – Learning AI Feels Like a Second Job
I’m definitely feeling like AI is a second job. Actually, scratch that. M365 changes is already a second job for me, AI is the third one.
I was not surprised by this:
It seems like I’m not alone: according to data from LinkedIn, 51% of professionals say that learning AI feels like a second job,
Worth Reading – AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
This is worth thinking about across society and the workplace:
Justin, a cohost of the podcast librarypunk, told me that the project of offloading cognitive capacity to AI continues apace: “Part of a fascist project to offload the work of thinking, especially the reflective kind of thinking that reading, study, and community engagement provide,” Justin
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Worth Reading – Trust Networks as Antidote to AI Slop
This is going to be what we have to do:
In response to AI slop we will increasingly rely on trust networks in professional dealings. Trust will be the new business currency.
https://brodzinski.com/2025/10/trust-networks-ai-slop-antidote.html
AI slop is everywhere online. I can’t open Facebook without being confronted with fake stories after fake stories, complete with fake images